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9 Feb 2024: Join The Herd for early years free play in a room filled with possibilities - explore, touch, build, imagine, play. We’re transforming a part of Cambridge Festival into a pop-up playground filled with recycled materials. Every item in the space

9 Feb 2024: Have you ever wondered how doctors calculate your heart health? Did you know researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit can predict if you are likely to get heart disease in the next 10 years?

6 Feb 2024: cam_fest_24_online_programme_feb_24.pdf.

15 Feb 2024: 11:00am-12:30pm on Sunday 24 March. And in Can a Saint Wear Makeup?

15 Feb 2024: 23 MAR11AM–4PM ON SUN 24 MARStudent Services CentreNew Museums SiteBene’t StreetCambridgeCB2 3PT. ... SUN 24 MAR Student Services Centre New Museums Site Bene’t Street CB2 3PT.

9 Feb 2024: During the Cambridge Festival, students and staff from the Cambridge School of Visual and Performing Arts will be attending a variety of talks, events, workshops and activities.

9 Feb 2024: Come and learn about cells: the building blocks of our bodies! Our bodies contain around 100 trillion cells, which carry out a huge range of important jobs such as making energy from food, communicating messages from one part of the body to another,

9 Feb 2024: Play our game of statistics, skill and luck, and find out if you are truly better at throwing than your friend, or are you just lucky? Or try our bespoke board game to find out how Dr Marble will find out the best treatment to give to patients.

5 Mar 2024: In This Is Our Street! - Pop-up exhibition uncovering the story of 'Sturton Town' (23 & 24 March), the story of people living and working in Petersfield formerly known as ‘Sturton Town’

9 Feb 2024: Explore the history of science through the Whipple Museum’s collection of instruments, models and pictures. Use the handling boxes in the learning gallery to explore the human body, light and shadows, and a range of other scientific concepts.

9 Feb 2024: The workshop is designed for beginners and is aimed at everyone above the age of 8. Here's a chance to explore a new dance form, Kuchipudi, and learn how to use the body to tell a story. Participants will be made familiar with a brief history of the

13 Mar 2024: Tuberculosis: A Fishy Tale about a Deadly Disease (24 March, Lecture Theatre A, New Museums Site) – Jonathan Shanahan, a postdoc from the Department of Medicine, talks about how his lab’s ... The nomadic storyteller from the North (24 March, Babbage

9 Feb 2024: Researchers from our Rising Stars training course will be popping up throughout the Festival. With subjects from economics, law and children's health, to plants and astrophysics, join us for activities and a chance to chat to our stars of the future!

9 Feb 2024: Kapla workshops are a wonderful way for children to discover their creativity and building skills. Join us in one of our workshops, facilitated by Jennier Norie of KAPLA UK, to have a go for yourselves.

9 Feb 2024: Activities are aimed at children and young adults (aged 5+) but all ages will enjoy interacting with our neuroscience researchers. First, 'All about the brain'. Play our animal matching game to learn fun facts about different types of brains.

22 Feb 2024: Bridging lived experience and scientific inquiry: A personal journey through OCD research (23 & 24 March) shows the human side of science and how personal battles can shape scientific progress. ... On the same (brain) wavelength: Neural synchronisation

9 Feb 2024: Throughout the history of science, people have been fascinated by the way vision works and how it can be tricked. Come along and discover how moving images can be created in different ways, how colours combine in unexpected ways and how you can tell

9 Feb 2024: An opportunity to see some treasures from the Whipple Library rare book collection, featuring some of the earliest Western scientific books, works by Darwin, Galileo, Newton and more, and (possibly) the smallest scientific book ever printed… This

9 Feb 2024: Some of the team from the Department of Archaeology, the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research and the Cambridge Archaeological Unit will be showcasing the variety of research within archaeology, through a range of hands-on activities

9 Feb 2024: Join Dr Jo for a fun and informative, interactive show as we journey around the human body, discovering wonders of biology along the way.